Tech News
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Doom III Release Date!!
Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 | By: DennisAccording to EB Games and GameStop Doom 3 will be available on Aug 3rd 2004. This is an exciting time for those of us that have been waiting.
The sad part about the whole deal is that many enthusiasts bought hardware for a Christmas 2003 release are now stuck with outdated equipment. I guess it pays to wait, sometimes.
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NL: Review Block - Intel 775 Stuff
Published: Monday, June 21, 2004 | By: DennisThe new 775 processor was released over the weekend though despite having a huge jump in technology (DDR2, T-Socket 775, PCI Express) the release seemed to go somewhat un-noticed.
- Intel's 915G and 925X chipsets @ The Tech Report
- Intel Pentium 4 Processor 560 and Alderwood @ Hardware Zone
- New Intel Socket 775 processors @ xBit
- 775LGA CPUs and 925/915 chipsets @ HardOCP
There should be some 775 action here at Ninjalane so stay tuned!
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Sparkle GeForce FX 5700 Ultra @ accelenation
Published: Monday, June 21, 2004 | By: DennisFor some reason I get Sparkle mixed up with Sapphire, they both make video cards but for different GPU makers.
The card under review is the new midrange powerhouse FX5700 Ultra using DDR3. Most everyone will agree that the 5900XT is the better value though the 5700U just seems cooler.
"It can be seen that our FarCry test with maximized settings really punishes this poor little Sparkle card. Even when overclocked, it still only manages to get within 60% of the performance of a Radeon 9800 pro card."
Umm I don't think using a 9800 pro is what we would call fair, but it does give you a good cross section in performance.
Be sure to check out the XFX FX5700 Ultra the card was quite an overclocker. -
Chaintech Zenith ZNF3-250 Review @ Hexus
Published: Monday, June 21, 2004 | By: DennisI wanted to review this board from Chaintech as a side by side to the 150 version that we reviewed but alas it didn't happen.
"Chaintech's not stopping there, oh no. The Zenith ZNF3-250 arrives with a bundle that make the postman's back hurt. Initial retail motherboards based on new chipsets can either be works in progress, i.e need serious BIOS overhauls, or work straight from the get go. Let's see how Chaintech does with a promising board."
It would seem that instead of using the new integrated features of the nForce3-250 chipset Chaintech retained the items found on the 150. I can't complain, it was a good bundle though overclocking could still use some improvement. -
NL: Review Bl0ck - Corsair Day
Published: Monday, June 21, 2004 | By: DennisIts not very often that you see something like this but they don't call Corsair memory the most reviewed memory for nothing. Heck we even have some on the review bench.
- Corsair Twinx1024-3200XL Pro @ Overclocker Cafe
- Corsair Twinx1024-3200XL Pro @ PCStats
- Corsair Twinx1024-3200XL Pro @ TweakNews
- Corsair Twinx1024-4400 @ Extreme Overclocking
Check back here for details on our next Corsair review. -
SpaceShipOne Has Made it to Space
Published: Monday, June 21, 2004 | By: DennisAs of this writing the craft has made it to space and has started its decent.
*Update* the craft has touched down, and Mars will be happy that M&M's have made it to sub-orbital space.
I wasn't really pulling for the Paul Allen team but he does have the bux to make it happen. Hopefully the John Carmak team can get off the ground before the deadline. -
Kingmax Hardcore PC4000 @ Envy News
Published: Monday, June 21, 2004 | By: Dennis"Perhaps it is because it is my favorite color, but I found them to be quite pleasing on the eye, and perhaps they are meant to symbolize the "green with ENVY" your fellow tweakers will feel when they see them. Now some might prefer copper sinks over aluminum, but at least we are able to say they have them and will hopefully give us some "room to move""
DDR500, Cas3, 2.6v. I dunno about you but these just seem to be typical DDR500 modules with a fancy name. Oh, and green heatspreaders.
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Computex 2004 Day 4 Posted
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisLast year day 4 of our Computex coverage included a gallery of booth babes, I am sorry to report that due to unforeseen technical issues the gallery had to be cut short. (Something was wrong with the connection between operator and new camera)
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Computex 2004 Day 3 Posted
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisEverything seemed to be really kicked back almost like nobody expected anything to happen, even the guys guarding the doors didn't seem to care what you did provided that you had the proper credentials.
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Gainward CoolFX Powerpack! Ultra/2600 @ Hexus
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisThis is the l33+ h4><0r of video cards, check it out.
" So since the introduction of NVIDIA's NV40 GPU over 2 months ago, Gainward have been busy building a water block for it, set to cool both GPU and memory modules, all 256MB of which lies on the same side of the PCB as the GPU. A few tweaks here, new clocks there, supporting hardware prepared and the water block primed and ready, Gainward's water-cooled GeForce 6800 Ultra is ready to rock."
The new coolers on display at Computex had a little window along the edge of the cooler that lights up when the system is on. The default color is red though I’m pretty sure this can be changed with a few minor mods.
